Friday, June 28, 2019

After banning circus animals, MoCo gets one-man circus

The Montgomery County Council is infamously known for debating at length, and then approving, a ban on circus animals - at the same time as once-major County employer Discovery Communications was being wooed to relocate by other jurisdictions. Sadness ensued for all, as Montgomery County wound up losing both circuses and the Discovery Channel headquarters. But, now through Sunday, July 7 at Strathmore, it's David Dimitri to the rescue! The son of legendary clown Jakob Dimitri is bringing a one-man circus to Montgomery County, L'homme Cirque.

Dimitri will fire himself out of a cannon as a human cannonball. He will walk the high wire. Strathmore promises he will balance these and other daring feats with "humor, poetry and an accordion serenade." At the climax of the performance, Dimitri will open the top of the tent, and the audience will witness him disappear "into the sky" on the high wire.

The one-man circus is one contingency the anti-circus County Council apparently did not anticipate, and thereby is legal. Teeth are assuredly gnashing at 100 Maryland Avenue, but the show must! go! on! True to the Montgomery Way, though, Dimitri was required to get a permit from the County to erect his tent on the Strathmore property. Big Government for the Big Tent!

McCarthy was an alcoholic, a morphine addict and a deeply closeted homosexual who died of liver failure at the age of 48, in disgrace three years after his career had been ruined by the backlash against his "anti-communist" witch hunts.

8:49: LOL - well, that's one version of McCarthy's biography. But back in our dimension, McCarthy was a patriotic American who was on the way to routing out the Communists in Hollywood, the media, and government. Unfortunately, like the Kennedys, he began to get too close to the core conspiracy, such as the highest-level foreign agents and Fellow Travelers in the White House and Deep State. He certainly passed away, but not likely from natural causes.